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As professional black women, we sometimes struggle to find time to date. In this episode of Essence Live's Kitchen Table Talk Series we discuss balancing a career with your love life. Dating co-workers and how to deal with insecure men who are intimi
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00:00Everyone's careers are blown up, your book just came out, you know, everyone has so many
00:06great things going on.
00:07He's my biggest cheerleader.
00:08Yeah, I was going to say, the person I'm with is my biggest fan.
00:11Supporter, not fan.
00:12Yeah.
00:13Scotty got to sip some more Zinfandel, okay?
00:17I was in a relationship where I had to hide that.
00:20I had to hide my success.
00:23That sucks.
00:24Because I was afraid that he was going to be upset if I had to go somewhere or something
00:29happened.
00:30And I would be so jovial, like extremely excited, and he'd be like, oh, that's cool,
00:35but when you're coming back here, you know what I'm saying?
00:37And you know, he was an accountant.
00:40So it was hard for him to understand how passionate I was about this, and he had no clue.
00:46And I had to hide literally any achievement that I had, I did not tell him anything.
00:51That like chips the way at your soul, because this is not an easy industry we're in.
00:55It's passion, what we do, right?
00:56And so you want to come home and you want to talk about it, maybe not all the time, but
00:59you need that support.
01:00And if you don't have that support, it'll make you go crazy.
01:01It's nothing that makes you go crazy.
01:04You're right.
01:05Studio name is unquote Google Tracy, and I also want you to talk about something, but you
01:06can, and we give people a little bit more like this.
01:15We'll be talking about something else, if you just put it before, and that we're by
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